Authentication in WCF for every call

Question

I\'m consuming a lot of WCF Services from a Silverlight application in a totally disconnected-way.

I want to ensure that I know the user who is calling every service and

Answer 1

One way to do this is if you can impersonate all users for that You need to add following in your service behaviour

more details here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731090.aspx

and if you want to know the user then inside your service methods you can use

 System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name

to find the user name who is using your services

Edit:

You can use membership api details here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731049.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pedram/archive/2007/10/05/wcf-authentication-custom-username-and-password-validator.aspx

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/asmxandxml/thread/8a679fb2-e67e-44a9-b491-eb95d5144068